What are crawdads? I don't recall giving much detail about this Louisiana-menu item in my earlier post from Louisiana. ;-) Click the link above to learn more. :)
Well, Mechanic Man *really* wanted to try some boiled crawdads, so he even looked up "how to" eat them. I was in the other room while he was watching the online video and heard only the ending comment of "sucking the juices out of the head." (Count me OUT!)
Without traveling too far off the main highway since we were tractor-trailer sized on the road, we found a restaurant that had a sign for "boiled crawfish." They even had a parking lot large enough for our rig! Must be the place to eat 'em! Well, they were out of the boiled ones, so we ordered deep fried ones.
(Not so scary to look at ... unless you know what's under all that coating! LOL!)
Everybody tried them except me. (Remember me trying the "alligator bites?" That was pushing the limit.) They all liked them ... stated they were a tad salty, but they were deep fried so, of course, they'd like them! ;-) They all tried to convince me that I'd like them smothered in ketchup. ;-) No, thank you. I just sat there and took pictures.
(I told them before we left to "count me out," so a protein shake was waiting for me in the cooler!)
After lunch, we put in some more hours on the road and stopped at a Yogi Bear campground. We have never been to one of these before, and it looks like a place of great fun for a long-term stay. There was a lake and all kinds of water toys at the humongous pool. Since we were just passing through and staying only one night, we didn't have the opportunity to utilize the facilities outside of the campsite.
Trying to level fifth wheel was troublesome, and Mechanic Man had to make a run to the camp store to buy a level to manually level it since the "auto leveler" decided to give us an error message. (If the fifth wheel isn't level, then we can't safely pull out the slides.) He returned with two tiny ones, but they served the purpose. Another one of those kinks to work through ... or be repaired.
After a restful night, we were ready for Day 3 of our eastward journey!
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